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| Date | Document Name & Details | Documents |
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| 7 July 1975 | Special Message to the Congress Proposing Federal-Aid Highway Legislation To: The United States Congress From: President Gerald R. Ford | Letter - 1 page |
| 28 July 1975 | Letter to Congressional Committee Chairmen Recommending Extension of Automobile Emission Standards. To: The United States Congressional Committee Chairmen (Jennings Randolph & Harley O. Staggers) From: President Gerald R. Ford | Letter - 1 page |
| 13 November 1975 | Special Message to the Congress Proposing Reform of Motor Carrier Regulation To: The United States Congress From: President Gerald R. Ford | Letter - 1 page |
| 15 April 1976 | Presidential Proclamation 4443 National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, 1976 President Gerald Ford | HTML - 1 page |
| 30 June 1976 | Presidential Proclamation 4447 President Gerald Ford | HTML - 1 page |
Quotes
Excerpt from Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session in Milwaukee at an Economic Forum of the Wisconsin Association of Manufacturers and Commerce (April 2, 1976)
TEAMSTERS TRUCKING STRIKE
Q. Mr. President, this is an economic forum, I am told, and the question I have, while it is simple, has considerable economic impact today. Do you intend to invoke the cooling-off period in the Taft-Hartley Act in the present Teamsters strike?
THE PRESIDENT. I intend to anticipate that the negotiations between labor and management will result in a contract, and I received a telephone call last night late from Secretary of Labor Usery who felt that progress had been made. I received a call from him earlier today just before landing here. He was increasingly optimistic, although he said they still had one or two very difficult problems to resolve.
I think it would be harmful as far as the current negotiations for me to say I am going to do this if you don't do that. They are making headway. I am optimistic that they will solve their problems, both as to money and the various other issues, and I don't think it would be constructive for me to indicate what I am going to do, because I think they are going to solve it themselves, which is the best way under the American system.
Q. Mr. President, my question has just been answered. [Laughter] I thank you.
Excerpt from Interview on the NBC News' Program "Today." (September 14, 1976)
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
MR. BROKAW. Mr. President, I want to ask you about some issues that are in the news this morning.
There is a good chance, it now appears, that there will be a strike at the Ford Motor Company. Do you anticipate that it will be necessary for the Government to get involved in a mediation effort because, after all, as you well know, this could be critical to economic recovery in this country?
THE PRESIDENT. Until midnight tonight, Tom, the labor-management representatives will be still negotiating on the Ford-UAW [United Auto Workers] differences. I think it would therefore be premature for me--until at least the end of the strike deadline--for me to make any comment one way or another.
I do hope through the normal processes of labor-management negotiations that labor on the one hand and management on the other will settle them, because a strike at the Ford Motor Company could have and would have some Unfavorable aspects as far as our economy is concerned.